Krauthammer on "Snake Oil" Speech: "Greatest Free Lunch In American History"
(By Greg Hengler, Townhall.com) - [Charles] Krauthammer clarifies all the hub-bub surrounding The One's demagogic diatribe to Congress on Wednesday night. Fortunately, most American's recognize O's "free lunch for everyone" campaign for what it is: fishy to say the least.
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He sounded smooth and polished and strong and convincing — and what he was selling was snake oil...
When he talked about what would be in his bill and how he would not end up with a dime of deficit, he said it will cost almost $1 trillion dollars and the majority of it, more than half, will come from — what? From removing waste, fraud, and abuse from Medicare.
Now, that's an insult to the intelligence of the American people. That phrase was a joke when it was used by Richard Nixon in 1971!
And if there is all this waste and abuse in the system waiting to be squeezed out, why hasn't he started already? Where is it? Why do you have to have a bill?
If you tell us Medicare is destroying our budget and our economy, he ought to be on this from Day One, and we're eight months in. Why doesn't he start today and give us a report in six months how the attack on waste and abuse is going? That was a fraud.
I mean, a lot of this stuff he sold — again, smoothly and extremely effectively — was amazing.
What he offered last night was the greatest free lunch in American history: no new taxes, no deficits, and he gave away everything. He is going to insure all these uninsured, have the lifetime guaranteed insurance [for those who have it], nobody is going to have to change it [one’s current insurance].
Of course people will lose health insurance [as a result of this plan]. All of this elided over brilliantly.
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